(March 31, 2019 at 6:11 pm)Belaqua Wrote:Quote:The xian faith seems to have been tailor made to be offensive to Jewish sensibilities. People don't realize this. It is not just a different religion to us. It is a religion that we can't have anything to do with. It is forbidden for a Jew to even go into a church. A Jew can go into a mosque. A Jew can pray in a mosque. But not a church. It really does seem to have been made toxic for Jews by design.
Yes, though I'm not aware of all of it, there is clearly some weird antipathy here.
Some oedipal? It certainly seems Freudian.
No, not oedipal. Islam is one of Judaism's 'children' as well. But there is no idolatry in Islam. No man-god. No human sacrifice. A Jew could almost convert to Islam if they continued to keep the 613 commandments. Jews and Muslims actually get along better than people realize. Take away the Israel/Palestine conflict, and we would basically have no trouble with each other at all. I have prayed at the same time and in the same room with Muslims. I have eaten Iftar meals with them. But I could never do that with the followers of Jesus.
My brother in law is a non practicing Catholic. He inherited a dreadful crucifix as a family heirloom. He mounted it on their dining room wall. It's this huge thing with some agonized bleeding man nailed to it. That is exactly what an idol is. If I were still an 'Observant' Jew, I would not even be able to enter my sister's dining room, because of that huge idol hanging on their wall. And even though I'm not so religious anymore, I still feel really creepy when I'm anywhere near that thing.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
